A strategy for detection of viruses in groundwater by PCR

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 444-449

  Abbaszadegan, Morteza ^a   Stewart, Peter ^a   LeChevallier, Mark ^b  

^a Amer Water Wk Serv Company Inc   (United States)

^b American Water Voorhees   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUND WATER;

DETECTION METHOD; GROUNDWATER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; DNA PROBE; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HYBRIDIZATION; INFECTION RISK; MASS SCREENING; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VIRUS DETECTION;

BUBALUS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; DNA VIRUSES; ENTEROVIRUS; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; ROTAVIRUS;

EID: 0032976128     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.2.444-449.1999     Document Type: Article

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